Rame
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01514RAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 12th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Germanus
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Address: Ramehead Ln, Rame, Torpoint PL10 1LG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1752 822264
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Maker, across The Sound from Plymouth
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Cox (1912) adds: "Circular mutilated base stone of font is also Norm[an]" [NB: it probably refers to the circular lower base on which the font now stands]. Of the font and cover, Cox (ibid.) writes: "Plain octagonal font is 14th cent., and domed cover, crowned with a dove, 18th cent." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Rame.html] [accessed 20 November 2009]. The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical side -one of which, at least, appears to be carved, others plain- raised on an octagonal stem that has spurs at the bottom making it square; on a round lower base [cf. supra].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 413721 5575047
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.3212, -4.212
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 19′ 16.32″ N, 4° 12′ 43.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-century?
Material: wood
Notes: [CF. fONTnOTES]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 18, 205, 206
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193